I think this is a mistake, libglvnd has a documented performance hit
and should be optional.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/glvnd/libglvnd/-/issues/222

On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:23:22 +0200
Cedric Sodhi <man...@openmail.cc> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> as by our discussion on #gentoo-desktop, we would like to sort out
> the historical artefact "virtual/opengl" which dates back to before
> Wayland and has become somewhat inappropriate (a misnomer, not
> sufficiently configurable, or redundant depending on one's
> perspective).
> 
> A quick recap of the situation, a description of the problems and
> reasons why it should be deprecated, as well as the "way forward" are
> documented here:
> 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:ManDay/Deprecating_the_virtual_OpenGL_ebuild
> 
> At this point we would like to invite everyone to enter additional
> feedback - including potential problems which are not covered by the
> article. When we're sure that everything has been considered, we can
> move to deprecating "virtual/opengl".
> 
> 
> Thank you!
> Cedric
> 


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